On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:51:56 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>You can invoke a CMS EXEC or EXEC2 procedure from within CMS EDIT, but
>if you invoke EDIT from within an EXEC then it loses control until
>EDIT completes. There is no equivalent to DATA and DATA PROMPT.
>
My recollection differs, though I may well be confusing CMS EXEC with
CLIST. Regardless, it's now moot: the only hit I get for EDIT * * is:
EDIT EXEC S2 V 133 Trunc=133 Size=75 Line=0 Col=1 Alt=0
******************************************************************
*
* @VR5HNKW - Remove call to old EDIT since 370 machines are not
* supported in VM/ESA 1.3.0.
*
* THIS EXEC IS USED TO INVOKE XEDIT IN EDIT
* COMPATIBILITY MODE.
>>But you must accept not receiving status from the stacked commands
>
>Correct. This is one of the few cases where CLIST is superior to REXX.
>
The only such modal behavior I now know in Rexx is with the new-fangled
(z/OS 1.4) "address 'TSO'" in Rexx EXECs invoked from a UNIX shell.
But, it proves the concept provided developers were diligent, and at
least one z/OS Unix developer was so diligent.
-- gil
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